That is not true: you do not need to transform image to grayscale. Any image is at the end binarized (if input image is not binarized) by tesseract (Otsu).
BUT: preprocessing image (e.g. custom binarization) will help. See https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/wiki/ImproveQuality Zdenko st 30. 1. 2019 o 7:36 <[email protected]> napísal(a): > Not a solution, but the image needs to be transformed into grayscaleetc, > (using Open CV) since OCR works best with grayed images and images which > have size of 300 dpi > > On Tuesday, June 12, 2018 at 12:44:21 PM UTC+5:30, Vidur Malhotra wrote: >> >> I tried running the tesseract on the attached image. But not getting the >> desired output. My sample code: >> >> >> import PIL >> from PIL import Image >> import pytesseract >> >> text = pytesseract.image_to_string(Image.open('test3.jpg'), lang='eng') >> print(text) >> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "tesseract-ocr" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/tesseract-ocr. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tesseract-ocr/43a5a754-4227-43b6-aec1-0261403b2029%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tesseract-ocr/43a5a754-4227-43b6-aec1-0261403b2029%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "tesseract-ocr" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/tesseract-ocr. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tesseract-ocr/CAJbzG8zsShhi_LsUXkCWoj8uxWxROkTL7G4RpGwzBEVm1EweTA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
